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...rubric "A Little Is Too Much" refers to the discovery that even trace amounts of dioxin can be harmful. Doesn't it also apply to the year as a whole? A little O.J. is too much; even a trace amount of Newt Gingrich goes a long way; a mere grain of Forrest Gump is dangerous. In the cases of love, valour and compassion, of course, too much would still have been too little...
...women and with jealousy, revenge, gunfire, deadly sea swells and lust in a lighthouse, all set in the tiny Newfoundland community of Witless Bay (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock) just after the turn of the century. The author writes well against this florid grain, producing extravagant melodrama in language that is strict, laconic and evocative...
...What do you call a person who dares to go against the grain of everything their native country holds dear, who dares to live by his own code of morality, who dares to live in a different world?," she said, letting the failed actor in her surface...
...only is such rapid interstellar trekking impossible, but the Star Trek characters' reliance on molecular transportation must also be taken with a grain of salt, skeptics...
...improve standards of living for Chinese citizens. Again, he failed to consider China's demographics. Most of China's poor live in rural areas, providing agricultural staples. Not only would these people not benefit from increased trade in, for example, video cassette recorders, new trade in goods such as grain and fresh vegetables could actually hurt them...